Shoulder strap for women&#39;s undergarments



Oct. 16, 1934. J. R. BUX

SHOULDER STRAP FOR WOMENS UNDERGARMENTS Filed May 16, 1955 gm'wm (i/1.0km

Patented Oct. 16, 1934 SHOULDER. STRAP FOR WOMENS UNDERGARMENTS Julius R. Bux, Philadelphia, Pa., assignor to J. Sullivan and Sons Manufacturing Company, Philadelphia, Pa., a corporation of Pennsyl-' vania Application May 16, 1933, Serial No. 671,396

4 Claims.

The invention has relation to shoulder straps or tapes used in supporting womens undergarments, in cooperation with a slide buckle admitting of the adjustment of the strap for length,

I and wherein the friction of the cloth on the slide buckle is relied upon to hold the adjustment, an object of the invention being to provide an improved shoulder strap to take the place of the strap commonly employed and made of cut and folded fabric.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combinations of parts as set forth in the appended claims.

In the accompanying drawing illustrating the invention,

Figure 1 is an edge view of the shoulder strap.

Figure 2 is a face view of the same.

Figure 3 is a face view of a portion of the strap enlarged.

Figure 4 is a longitudinal section of a portion of the strap enlarged.

Figure 5 is a transverse section of a portion of the strap enlarged.

Figure 6 is a perspective view of a portion of the strap commonly used and made of cut and folded fabric.

In the drawing the numeral 1 designates the shoulder strap and 2 is the slide buckle, said strap comprising a flat tubular body having a plurality of fine warp threads 3 arranged closely together, and a single coarser serpentine weft thread 4, the transverse stretches 5, of which are spaced apart.

The strap is provided with marginal parallel lines of binder threads 6, which serve to hold the fabric fiat and to provide the fabric with tight selvedges, these binder threads being under greater tension than the warp threads and being in consequence embedded below the surface ofthe goods, whereby the binding function of the said threads is increased to better hold the fabric fiat, and the binder threads are protected against injury in movement of the strap relative to the slide buckle. The marginal parallel lines of binder threads are each composed of a plurality of lines of binder threads; having consequently in- V creased bearing on the fabric to better hold it flat. 1 The transverse spaced stretches of the coarser weft thread stand out in ridged fashion in the fiat tubular strap, thereby increasing friction of the strap relative to the slide buckle to better hold the adjustment of the strap for length.

,The lateral edges of the flat tubular strap are somewhat irregular or serrated as shown at 7,

thereby affording further increased frictional resistance of the strap relative to the slide buckle .to better hold the adjustment for length.

While the frictional resistance of the strap to movement through the slide buckle to hold theadjustment of the strap for length has been enlarged upon, it will be understood that the adjustment of the strap for length is accomplished in the usual way without difiiculty.

The strap of the present invention is of substantially the same thickness throughout and of the same width throughout, whereas the strap now used and made of cut and folded fabric has two thicknesses of the material at one edge portion thereof and four thicknesses of the material at the other edge portion thereof, and is of uneven width, due to difficulty in accomplishing the folding. In the case of .the sewing machine stitches of the strap now used, the threads thereof are not embedded below the surface of the goods and are more subject to injury in the movement of the strap relative to the slide buckle.

The strap of the present invention is woven on a loom and the marginal lines of binder threads are loom woven, whereby there is no tendency to pucker the goods as in the case of the sewing machine stitches now used, the latter also having less secure engagement with the goods so that they are likely to become disengaged from the fabric at least in part.

I claim:-

1..A shoulder strap for women's undergarments, comprising a flat tubular body having a plurality of fine longitudinal warp threads arranged closely together and a single coarser serp'entine weft thread the transverse stretches of which are spaced apart, and marginal parallel lines of loom woven binder threads under greater tension than said warp threads, embedded below the surface of the goods and serving to hold the fabric flat and to provide the fabric with tight selvedges, said transverse spaced stretches of the coarser weft thread providing outstanding ridges, thereby increasing friction and resisting movement of the strap relative to a slide buckle, the flat tubular fabric having irregular serrated edges thereby further resisting movement relative to a slide buckle, the marginal lines of binder threads comprising each a plurality of lines of threads having consequently increased bearing on the fabric to better hold it fiat.

2. A non-elastic strap body including a. plurality of relativelyfine warp threads arranged to extend in parallel relation and in proximity to each other, a relatively coarse weft thread ar- 11o ranged in serpentine form, and a plurality of binder threads arranged in two groups spaced from each other and from the adjacent edges of the strap, said binder threads being relatively tensioned and extending wholly below the faces of the strap.

3. A nonlastic strap body including a plural= ity of relatively fine warp threads arranged to extend in parallel relation and in proximity to each other, a relatively coarse weft thread arranged in serpentine form and having its adjacent courses spaced-and disposed in difierent planes and in staggered relationship with respect to each other, and a plurality of binder threads arranged in two groups spaced from each other and from the ad jacent edges of the strap, said binder threads ber waesa ing'relatively tensioned and extending wholly below the faces of the strap.

4. A non-elastic strap body including a plurality of relatively fine warp threads arranged to eX- tend in parallel relation and in proximity to each other, a relatively coarse weft thread arranged in serpentine form, both said warp and weft threads being substantially inelastic and untensioned and being interwoven to cause the faces of said strap to present a relatively ribbed appearance incident to such weft thread, and the edges of said strap being serrated, and a plurality of binder threads arranged in two groups spaced from each other and from the adjacent edges of the strap, such binder threads being relatively tensioned and extending wholly below the strap faces.

JULIUS R. BUX. 

